"Because
we have failed to comprehend what really happened in the Boyne
Valley we have missed out on thousands and thousands of years
of the development of human culture and science. Even in the
fact of a deliberate attempt made on the part of megalithic man
to outshine and preserve his knowledge and wisdom for all the
time, sealing it for future generations in an ingenious way,
we have failed to recognise it."

Finding the measurement
system alone was an astounding discovery because it turns upside
down every conventional theory about early Irish society. Far
from the stone age Irish being savages, we are talking about
a highly civilised people.

The new thinking also
upsets world history. The development of civilisation is considered
to have come much later in time, certainly not in Western Europe
and definitely not during the Stone Age. William Stukely (1687-1765)
had proposed a "Druid cubit", but although recognised
as the finest field archaeologist of his period, his ideas in
this area were dismissed. More recently, Professor Alexander
Thom, after surveying stone circles for over thirty years, proposed
the use of a megalithic yard. His ideas are just beginning to
gain acceptance.

Peter Lancaster Brown,
an astronomer and a critical self-confessed sceptic in the new
field of astro-archaeology recently commented; "Perhaps
still buried and preserved below the peat level is direct geometrical
evidence of how the ancient Brits measured the sizes and shapes
of their peculiar circles. Discovery of this kind of evidence
might certainly tell us whether Alexander Thom's thesis is correct
or false." Now this discovery has been made.

Since my initial discovery, I have been able to indisputably
establish the Boyne Valley measuring system, and I found it to
be consistent and precise according to the precision limits of
the tools used. However, something even more astounding occurred
when the measurements were closely examined by me back at the
farmhouse. Over the next few days I made a series of discoveries
that would produce a hitherto unimagined view of the level of
scientific achievement and technology reached by at least 3,000
B.C. in Ireland.

The measurement system
that I found in the Boyne Valley and also in the
Loughcrew Mountains
divides a line into parts A and B in such a way that the ration
of length A to length B was the same as the ration of the entire
line to A. In other words, the line was divided into what is
known as a golden ratio. This is one of the most famous of all
irrational numbers. The supposed inventors of this were the ancient
Green mathematicians, who called it the "extreme and mean
ratio".

The golden ratio has been widely thought to be the most pleasing way to divide a line.
It obeys the same laws which govern the growth of many natural
forms and the ratio has been widely used in art and architecture
from the Greeks through the Renaissance and into modern architecture.
To find its origins in the remote north-west fringes of the European
continent during the Stone Age has implications that shake the
foundations of every concept of the early history of Europe that
has been current this century.

In order to measure the inscriptions, I decided to make a rod of brass which would
have the A measurement on one side, and the B measurements on
the other. When I did this, I noticed that my A notches and B
notches met at just two points along the rod ­ at 10A and
7B and at 20a and 14B. so I cut the rod at the 20A mark. Then
it occurred to me that the originators of the measurements system
would also be aware of these meeting points, and that therefore,
this new measurement would show up on the inscriptions. It did.
In fact. I had found what I called the C measure which, at approximately
201/4"came close to the "Druid cubit" proposed
by Stukely 200 years ago. Just as significant, the C measure
was the same as that of Egypt's Royal cubit, which was used to
build the pyramids.

With this rod, I found that not only was the C measure very conspicuous in the design
of the Boyne inscriptions, but it was the basis of a circular
grid. By combining field work with studio work, I was utterly
amazed to find that the inscriptions that had baffled so many
generations partly because they appear to be randomly placed,
were in fact positioned carefully in the field of a grid system.

This means that to a large degree, the inscriptions, when reduced to scale and put
one on top of another on tracing paper, fit together. Furthermore,
it provides irrefutable evidence that not only is a measurement
system in operation, but there can be no doubt about what the
measurement system is. The possibility that the inscriptions
do not contain a measurement system and that the appearance of
such a system can be attributed to accident, are reduced to absolute zero.

Incidentally, one important point needs to be made. The relationship between A and B is an
irrational number. In other words 20A and 14B only seem to be
commensurate visually; mathematically they are not. This means
that the Boyne Valley geometers would have only a negligible
error when measuring on a small scale. But as the scale increased,
the error would grow.

How did they solve the
problem of measurement without a real science of numbers? Simple.
They didn't need a science of numbers. To them, as to all the
ancient geometers, proof was visual proof. So they used scale.
To measure on a large scale, they constructed larger measuring
devices.

I found the evidence of this when I studied the ground plans of the mounds more closely.
Here the scale is in hundreds of feet. I could see that the
Newgrange
ground plan involved two visually commensurate measurements with
a fascinating underlying visual geometry. Next, I re-examined
the overall scheme of mounds in the Boyne Valley as a whole.
Here they were dealing with distances in terms of our miles.
I was startled to find that the distances between the mounds
were part of a gigantic blueprint which repeatedly uses land
measures and that these two measures unlocked a total geometric
plan. The same measurements are used at the complex of mounds
in the Loughcrew Mountains 33 miles away.

Boyne Valley Private Day Tours

Pick up and return to your accommodation or cruise ship. Suggested day tour:
Newgrange World Heritage site, 10th century High Crosses at Monasterboice,
Hill of Tara the seat of the High Kings of Ireland, Bective Abbey and Trim Castle the largest Norman castle in Ireland
More ...